Search Authors on Google Scholar

google_scholar.py

import re
import urllib2

def get(url):
    return urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

def search_author(name):
    name = re.sub(r'\s+', '+', name)
    page = get('http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=' + name)
    m = re.search(r'(?<=/citations\?user=)\w+', page)
    user = m.group(0)
    page = get('http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=' + user)
    m = re.findall(r'(?<=cit-data">)\d+', page)
    if len(m) >= 6:
        return {'citations': int(m[0]),
                'citations since 2009': int(m[1]),
                'h-index': int(m[2]),
                'h-index since 2009': int(m[3]),
                'i10-index': int(m[4]),
                'i10-index since 2009': int(m[5])}
    else:
        return None